In the largest town In France, known as the city of light and love, there exist numerous expensive and high-end estates. There are rows of ultra-modern apartments and 17th century townhouses while the towering modern and luxurious mansions are still few to count. It is said that in this city, there are the top four wealthiest neighborhoods, each containing people with fame and incomes that's jaw dropping.
In one place, you can find the various proud, artistic and splendid museums of the city. On another you will see some of the famous and giant, luxurious brands in the whole world located in that glistening neighborhood. These districts are so well off that only those who are willing to spend money or people who are at least in the middle class can afford a place in the city. Yet, despite that costly trait, this city has never lacked population.
Tonight, just like any other populated commercial cities in the world, the lavish looking city is still lively and some are still enjoying the blessings of the bright full moon. The traffic is continuous and individuals from teenagers to adults are still flowing on the busy streets- never stopping the sounds of murmurings and tracks reaching the inner sky.
But contrary to the main roads and populated rows, there are still residential areas where some opulent mansions and wide spacious lawn enclosing the sumptuous habitat are quiet and only few traffic or lively people takes place. If one can own a place here, then surely he or she has a lot of money. And in one of the mansions located here is where Mike Laurent's spacious mansion with the atypical tall and circular shape with wide floor to ceiling windows as its common traits, currently and unusually contains five people. One in the third floor, suffering from the state of slow motion caused by a carefree good-looking fairy downstairs with three other more attractive people.
The two girls who used the chance to dress up in more comfortable out-going outfits are now resting on the sofa in the living room. While the man whose main attractive point shines bright in the dim living room is still conversing with the fairy. His silver white hair and gold eyes sparkled with the full moon facing the left side of the mansion.
Though he and the fairy didn't join the 'stealing-activity' with Joharra and Si, he still emits some cold sweat in his forehead and nape that smoothly slides down. The cold droplets that fell down in his ear and cheeks added to the moisture at the back of Ciel's neck that's now hugging the back of his shoulder. Unlike other people, the cold sweat didn't emit any unpleasant smell but instead mixed with the attractive citrus scent of his.
Ciel is not that tired and using the time from his birth country as his basis, it's still early so he is willing to wait and work more for their main goal. Right now, because of the happenings with the sleeping fairy upstairs, many questions arouse the omega's curiosity. When Fil asked him to share his thoughts, Ciel then bit the bullet. But when he finally laid everything out, the feminine looking fairy didn't answer him, in lieu he was standing in front of him, currently in deep thought.
The taller man already guessed two answers from Fil- one, he doesn't know the answer and is trying to brainstorm? Or two, he knows the answer but still contemplating if the omega should know too. If it's the former then it would probably take more time to satisfy his curiosity, but if it's the latter and Fil chose not to share the information then he respected that and there's probably a big reason why he should not. But taking so much time brainstorming or contemplating is not favorable to this group of people and Ciel thought so too, especially when he remembered the sleeping fairy upstairs is now showing signs of resisting the spell.
Ciel waited more but Fil is so focused on his thoughts he forgot the time limit they have. A total of seven minutes passed and there was no development so Ciel patted lightly the other's short shoulder and disrupted the immersed fairy.
"Fil, this is rude especially when I am the one who brought the topic, but how about we just continue this later and prepare to leave first?"
Ciel's words brought Fil back to reality but before he agreed to answer the boy he sensed another movement. In the mansion Fil sensed that there were still five people so the movement should have come from the person upstairs.
This should not be surprising logically because when Fil casted the spell, his energy core is so weak. The spell could at least only work on domestic types of animals while the sleeping fairy is brimming with energy and should be more powerful in terms of magic as of now. It's normal if the fairy will resist the spell and estimating it's effectiveness, sooner than later it would break.
He carefully observed the whole area using his bare senses and confirmed their safety. Remembering the time, he made a decision to leave now with the team created just for this stealing activity. In his mind, he also thanked how punctual and considerate Ciel acts that it brought him advantage in this situation. He really can't decide whether to honestly tell the omega the truth or choose how to put the words he wants to relay so leaving the mansion first will give him time.
He beckoned Ciel and the other followed towards the two resting girls. Fil took the simple black bag from Si, where the precious stone of fairies lay.
Ciel glanced at the unlively bag. With that, the natural inquisitive omega forgot the 'sofia'-topic, for now. He observed the bag and he knows the stone is there but unlike what he expected, there is no glow or some oozing energy that should be felt. The omega didn't give up and believed that maybe the bag is made of magic too that can stop the 'overflowing' energy and mana coming from the stone, or some kind of magical bag that even light can't escape.
While the omega slightly stretched his neck to give a proper observation to the stone and see its wonders, the smaller fairy who looked composed slightly became pressured when he felt the excitement from the omega. With his round eyes, he glanced at his omega friend. Due to his playful nature he can't help but want to tease the other, completely forgetting that he himself doesn't know the wonders of stone.
Fil and Ciel just became friends and their relationship is not that deep to call it close but both most likely have now the low-key tacit understanding of each other. If Ciel can notice and guess what the fairy is thinking like when they are chatting a while ago, then Fil should already know that Ciel is most probably the type of person with a high level of curiosity but too shy and always act aloof on the outside.
Just like now when he unconsciously shows his excitement and curiosity on the matter as he stretched his white neck and hooded eyes with a sparkle of gold that radiates his expectations.
Fil uncovered the stone and moved slightly to his right to show the stone that's now in his hands towards the other three. The stone, just like when it's inside the bag, didn't glow, nor produce at least any kind of signs of it being special. If it's in the other western movies, it should have special effects and CG movement to show how magical this stone is or if it's in an anime and comics the stone should drizzle pixie dust as Fil took it from the bag. But no, none of this happened and in the eyes of the three audience it's so normal and… disappointing.
While the two girls didn't expect much because when they found the stone it didn't glow too and just thought that only fairies can make it work, but it's not the same with the tall omega.
Where is the sparkling and lushing stone? Where is the magical bag that even light can't escape? Ciel looked intently at the stone who betrayed his expectations. All he can see is the stone that's laying normally in the small hands of the boy like a pebble you can find in the streets or in the yard.
The sparkle in his eyes diminished and made a face of displeasure. This expression didn't bring negativity to the group and instead amused the other three, however as if the innocent and 'simple-looking' stone felt Ciel's disappointment , it tried to get closer to the omega as if it has life on its own. But to the stone's dismay no one saw its effort because all is now focused on their departure.
"Si, did you find our path to exit?" Fil asked which Si nodded as the two girls became serious too.
"Exit?" Ciel interrupted with a question mark in his handsome face. He thought they were going to teleport back home, though it brought him a slight uncomfortable feeling, he secretly wants to try it again.
"Yes, we are going to walk out of here. I can't use the stone yet so we have no other choice." Fil answered as he hid the stone away and patted the bag twice, his round bright eyes smiling to the omega. Reluctantly, the omega nodded to show his understanding forgetting he was scammed by Fil.
Joharra and Si led the way towards the kitchen area past the wide dispersed curtain hiding the closed sliding door towards the garden of the mansion.
Between the two girls is the open wide window that even a tall man like Ciel can exit. This mode of exit is so easy to open from the inside that even if they didn't plan the exit, they can easily run away, but normally, won't big mansions have hidden cameras or CCTV in every possible angle? This matter was brought to the group by the omega and so he searched for the possible cameras but it didn't even take a minute to see the camera staring at their group.
He immediately turned around and warned his companions but instead of being alarmed, the fairy with gray hair even made an eye to eye contact with his round eyes full of playfulness, displaying their shenanigans while the ladies remained calm and composed. If there is a rating for worst to best thieves they would probably get a negative score.
"You… don't care if he saw this, what if he reported us?" Ciel asked as he learned more unbelievable traits and wonders of all his accomplice.
Fil retorted, "What will he report? That someone stole a stone in his mansion?"
Ciel didn't like how his friend responded with sarcasm so he stated as a matter of fact, "Yes, and oh….. trespassing on his property?"
The two boys looked at each other both recalling 'that' incident.
"You…can't you move on? Didn't you know moving on will help clean your soul. Try it, maybe then you will be finally happy."
Ciel made a look of someone who learned a new thing, his eyes of gold looked straight at the fairys while his mouth made a long O shape. "You surely know a lot of things, even Buddhist teachings. Next time, try to teach it to us before suggesting housebreaking?"
Fil only rolled his eyes and didn't counter Ciel's remark, instead he turned back to the camera and squinted his eyes like all his haplessness was caused by that camera's owner.
Si smiled and offered a suggestion to the fairy, "Young master, how about leaving a letter?"
"....Letter?"
Si silently nodded which made Joharra amused more to her as if they know something only between the two girls know while Ciel got the whole idea and added with a serious tone, "Right, like an apology and excuse letter?"
Fil felt what the three said is a joke but he can't laugh it out as he is uncomfortable with their idea "Why would I write? We are not close"
Joharra also joined the short conversation and convinced their young master, " that's why we should write it, young master. Maybe in that way, we won't be harassed later."
Fil trusted them so he believes that anything they suggest and say is only for their good. He was still hesitant to go back, but had no choice but to comply with their wishes. He felt their idea is actually not necessary and either way won't stop that cold and aloof fairy to take revenge on him. But although he thinks of that, he still went back to find a paper and pen did and tried to find words for this 'apology letter'
Fil's writing a letter activity lasted for a whole five minutes and then went to the long stairs to paste the short memo. No one helped him so everything in that letter can be considered his 'real feelings' toward the matter. He also didn't forget to apologize about the punch.
After this, he immediately went back to the kitchen and reported his deed, which Joharra happily announced that they can now leave this place whenever they want. Joharra is the first one who jumped the not so high kitchen glass window and guarded outside. Si followed and so Ciel and Fil.
When they finally leave the interior of the mansion, it is now time for Fil's skill to shine. He used his 'intelligence' that he got from traveling around the world and guided the rest to follow him. Within thirty minutes of walking and running at night, they reached a road where they could hear someone else's voices and saw the lively lights heading to the nearest stores.
The four people didn't rest and continued to walk away from the direction of Mike's mansion. Fil found an opened green-themed cafe and decided to rest for a while. When the small bell rang, a bright interior and the fragrance of brewed coffee welcomed them. There were no other customers and only two foreign people in the counter met their gaze.
This cafe can be considered a minimally designed cafe, once you enter, you will immediately feel light and fresh despite its location in the city. They offer many varieties of cafe drinks and some light snacks and meal-sized food like a croque monsieur.
The tall female staff with an apron approached and greeted the group who entered. She gave a short introduction as she talked slowly and friendly to the customers. Although Fil can understand French he can only speak the basics clearly while the rest are like alien words even to himself. They didn't order or rather talk much so when the waitress left they returned fast to the real matter- 'the how-to-make-the- stone-work'.
However, they were in separate tables and were grouped into two. One table for the girls near the window, while the two boys faced the girl's table from the wall-bar's chairs. They can only talk in low voices as the topic of their conversation is very…. unusual and fantasy-like.
"Sorry, actually I don't know how I will get energy from this stone." Fil explained. "All I know is this stone is where we store the energy which can help fairies to do magic. Also, if I remember it correctly, it also has a name.... 'Fay'! But other than that..I really have no idea"" And like a new inserted reflex, he looked at Ciel.
The other's composed expression, almost convinced the fairy that the other will not get mad but he immediately noticed the light wrinkled brows that didn't even have the chance to deduct any possible handsome features of the omega.
The fairy thought the other would push the topic on hand and would feel wronged by his broken promise but unexpectedly received a silent response. The omega looks so focused on the menu of the cafe like he was trying to find the words he is expecting. But though he is frowning, it only brought another kind of aura that makes others think that even if he's not smiling, he is very handsome and nubile.
"Ciel?...Are you okay?" Fil just can't take it anymore and asked away with caution, minding the words he will say.
Fortunately, aside from getting Ciel's attention back to them, he doesn't have any other reaction.
"Oh.. yeah I'm fine",Ciel replied putting the menu away as the other three's eyes followed his movements. The omega noticed this and thought that Fil and the other two probably noticed that he's not focused on their conversation. He fixed his posture and opened his ears to show he is ready to listen with full attention.
He looked so obedient that the three people in the group only thought one thing: 'How adorable'. The adjective almost didn't fit his appearance that if someone didn't know him they would probably rebuke what the girls and the fairy thought. But inside the cafe, who can blame Fil, Si, and Joharra for thinking this way when they just saw how the aloof, and manly guy like Ciel also have moments like this.
While the two girls who got their smoothies with adorable pink color remained silent and managed to hide their pleasant smiles, Fil needed to turn around and bite the snack he just received to avoid the escaping smile.
Later on, without any improvement to their situation, the girls silently observe the two young masters from their small table.
They just realized that the carelessness of their young master brought a huge failure factor to their mission and their incapability to predict this when they are planning.
Although planning to steal the stone was successful mainly because of Fil's knowledge about the possible whereabouts and traits of the stone, they forgot the fact that their young master Fil actually didn't explain their exit plan and just followed his commands to find the exit from the mansion. The fairy probably already knew he can't use the stone yet so he just focused on the stealing part.
Though Joharra and Si don't know Ciel as much as they know their young master, they noticed that unlike his affable aura before he entered the cafe and from the mansion, his calm expression looks like it's hiding something.
Joharra and Si can only guess and deduce to themselves the mystery of the other's expression. They thought of quite a lot and most of it is actually based on their real young master's attitude such as, he felt uncomfortable inside the cafe, the ugly posture of the tables, or tired from the long time of waiting, or the shoes didn't fit well and wanted to quickly go home to change it. They also thought that Ciel didn't get what he wanted when he ordered and threw a tantrum. But though they are not familiar with Ciel, they can't see him as someone who will get upset from the cafe, or his shoes, or the posture of the tables or when he didn't get the food he wanted, so they just went with 'he hates to wait a long time' but then they just remembered that the omega is looking at the menu when he frowned.
To know the truth from the omega himself is impossible so they just kept quiet and accepted their deduction and guesses as the truth. The boy inside their minds is now fiddling with the tissues while their young master turns towards the omega's direction to place the stone in a handkerchief.
Fil spent the whole seven minutes watching the unmoving plain stone, while thinking how they would go home. They have enough money to travel back but it's very troublesome. Now he can't blame anyone except how careless he was when planning. So what if they got the stone, if they don't know how to use it? So what if they successfully exited the mansion when they were stuck in the very same city.
Fil was very guilty and could only share the sweet and tasty desserts he ordered to lighten the atmosphere. He wanted to give some to others, especially to the man beside him who only wanted to drink water. When the fairy's hand approached the broad shoulder of the tall omega, the other was stunned and looked at him. Not because Fil suddenly touched him, but because the other was offering the plate with delicate scallop-shaped French cookies.
Fil looked how the other was still unmoving when he suddenly saw Ciel reddening, his always handsome face showing a shade of pink and red. The fairy was stunned by how the omega looked so charming and on why he suddenly blushed. He can't help but think, did Ciel really spend a sad life with no friends to offer him food, that he felt so grateful for the Madeleines he offered to the point of blushing?
Fil suddenly felt bad and also got more fired up to give a 'happy life' to his new friend. However, on the other pool of mind, where the omega's thoughts keep swimming and floating in, it's obvious how fairy's thoughts were so far from the truth.
Ciel thought to himself, 'Am I so obvious that they noticed everything?' While the other three were super satisfied when they entered the cafe and when they ordered their drinks, he was still looking at the menu finding the only drink he wanted to take at this moment.
The cafe has many varieties of drinks and also has some snacks, but it doesn't mean they have 'everything'. Ciel knew that, yet he still got upset. He tried to restrain himself, pretending to be composed at the surface. He thought he mastered it so well but when he saw the pink smoothies held by the two girls he remembered he also held his mug that way at home. He suddenly had the urge to finish everything, leave this place and go home at once to drink his own hot chocolate drink.
The way he frowned, and ended up distracted from their conversation or when he suddenly got offered a snack to probably soothe him, just thinking about it he looked so childish and was so ashamed. He was disappointed that the cafe's menu doesn't contain his favorite but he should have acted more mature.
Looking back at how Fil is still offering him the square plate, he took two Madeleines. He chewed the first one and tried to remove the remaining shades of pink color on his face. He was about to put the other in his mouth when the stone placed above Fil's handkerchief moved like a chick trying to break free from its shell.
And just like that, the stone who was forgotten by this group of people successfully grabbed their attention back to it again.